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Commodities Taxes/Levies And Their Effects On Commodity Trade And Movements In Nigeria., Joe Alegieuno, A O. Balogun Jul 2000

Commodities Taxes/Levies And Their Effects On Commodity Trade And Movements In Nigeria., Joe Alegieuno, A O. Balogun

Bullion

The Commodity Boards were noted for paying farmers prices that were lower than the world prices and sometimes even lower than their production costs. This difference represented implicit taxation of farm incomes and served as a dis-incentive to domestic production. This paper examines the administration of commodity taxes/levies and their effect on commodity trading in Nigeria as well as assessing the various systems of commodity marketing in Nigeria. The paper concludes that Commodity trade, in Nigeria began with the British companies exporting raw materials to their industries abroad. His was followed by the Commodity/Marketing Board era and finally trade liberation. …


Welfare-Maximizing Tax Structure In A Model With Human Capital, Manuel A. Gómez Apr 2000

Welfare-Maximizing Tax Structure In A Model With Human Capital, Manuel A. Gómez

Manuel A. Gómez

This paper studies the welfare-maximizing tax structure in a two-sector model of endogenous growth with human capital. Here, tax structure refers to the mix of taxes which satisfy an exogenously given government budget constraint.


2000-12 Endogenous Majority Rules With Changing Preferences, Mattias K. Polborn Jan 2000

2000-12 Endogenous Majority Rules With Changing Preferences, Mattias K. Polborn

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.